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b. Compute the sample standard deviation. c. Compute the median. 4. Go to the U.S. Census Bureau's site on international demographic data. The link is provided in this week's reading title Website: International Data Base (IDB). Once at this site, click the tab "Select Report" and then choose "Population Pyramid Graph." Select the year "2020" and "United States." Then select the "Submit" tab. How does the age distribution compare between Afghanistan and the United States? Answer must be at least 4 complete sentences.
Incidence Rate = New cases occurring during a given time period Population at risk during the same time period x 10² hortality rate is the total number of deaths reported during a given e interval divided by the population from which the deaths occurred. calculated as: Mortality Rate = Deaths occurring during a given time period Population from which deaths occurred X10²
New cases occurring during a short time period Attack Rate = x 100 Population at risk at the beginning of the time period describe diseases or events that affect a larger proportion of the population than the con the rate base for the attack rate is 100. al illness was reported to the District Health Officer in Syracuse, New York.25 The illness to cases of illness in a place and time above what is normally expected. Outbreak refers The investigation of the outbreak involved first constructing a line listing of those at the pi illness resulted, date of onset, time of onset, and whether selected foods were eaten. At vanilla ice cream, 43 were ill and 11 were not ill, yielding an attack rate of 80%. That atta number of individuals who ate vanilla ice cream (54) in the denominator. Of those who di es is 5.7, indicating that those who ate the vanilla ice cream were 5.7 times more likely to he attack rate of those who ate vanilla ice cream (80%) in the numerator and the attack ra urring among contacts of known cases. This incidence rate is known as the secondary a New cases among contacts of primary cases during a short time period SAR = x 100 Population at beginning of time period - (Primary cases) he time period yields the at-risk population. For example, in a daycare center, 40 children secondary attack rate is as follows: SAR = 120-40 480 - 40 x 100 = 18.2 ents is prevalence, which is the frequency of existing cases of a health-related state or e a point in time. Point prevalence is a proportion and is calculated as follows: Existing cases of a disease or Point Prevalence = event at a point in time Total study population ×100 at a point in time or event during a time period. For example the period prevalence of arthritis in a given yo
Confidence Intervals When a rate is based on sample data, the sample rate is an estimate of the population rate. Confidence intervals are used to measure the precision of a sample rate. A confidence interval is the range of values in which the population rate is likely to fall. By convention, 95% confidence intervals are used to indicate a range in which the investigators are 95% confident that the true population rate lies. The formula to calculate a 95% confidence interval for an incidence rate is: Rate ±1.96√/Rate(1 - Rate)/n Rate refers to the attack rate (or the cumulative incidence rate), and n equals the population at risk. When computing the confidence interval, make sure the rate is in decimal form (i.e., not multiplied by a rate base). After the confidence interval is computed, multiply the lower and upper limits by a relevant rate base. For example, suppose a random sample of 100 workers at a steel plant were selected and monitored over time for respiratory problems. If 25 of these workers complained of respiratory problems after 1 month of follow-up, such that the rate is 25 per 100, the 95% confidence interval for the rate is: 0.25±1.96√√0.25(1-0.25)/100 = 0.165, 0.335; 16.5-33.5 per 100 Thus, we are 95% confident that the true rate of respiratory problems is in the interval 16.5-33.5 per 100 steel workers. For a person-time incidence rate, the formula is modified as follows: Rate ± 1.96 Number of new cases/(person-time at risk)2 To illustrate, let's refer again to the data in Table 4-4. To calculate the 95% confidence interval for the 40- to 49-year male rate of first primary malignant cancer, we apply the formula as follows: 33,706 = 0.001901, 0.001942 √(17,544,979)² 0.001921±1.96, Thus, we are 95% confident that the true 40-to 49-year male rate of first primary malignant cancer during 2013-2015 is in the interval 190.1-194.2 per 100,000 person-years. Finally, an approximate 95% confidence interval for the SMR can be calculated if we can appropriately assume a normal distribution.28 The formula is: SMR ±1.96√/SMR/Expected Based on the SMR example presented above, 0.848 0.848±1.96, = 0.846, 0.850 √719,276 So we are 95% confident that the true SMR reflecting the ratio of female-to-male malignant cancer cases is between 0.846 and 0.850.